Li Long had gone to Old Ma's Place.
Ever since the idea of raising livestock on a large scale had occurred to him, he had wanted to check whether there was room to expand around Old Ma's Place whenever he returned to the Fourth Team, even though he knew it could not happen anytime soon.
Old Ma's Place stood on relatively high ground, between the Fourth Team's three settlements, about four or five hundred meters from each of them.
It had originally been fairly close to the Old Brigade Headquarters. Later, the headquarters had been torn down, leaving only a row of three rooms for a preschool class, with the Team paying someone to teach the children.
For an old building like Old Ma's Place, the materials used back when it was built really had been good, and its foundations were deep. After all, the Fourth Team's land was saline-alkali flats, and Old Ma's Place was surrounded by alkali flats covered in short reeds.
Yet after all these years, there was barely any salt coming up through either the living quarters or the Livestock Enclosures. That showed how deep the foundations were, and that the soil and other materials beneath them had been hauled in from nonsaline land.
They had really put their hearts into it back then.
Li Long drove his Jeep up to Old Ma's Place and stopped outside. After getting out, he did not go into the stable, but prepared to walk around it and take a look.
Old Ma's Place itself occupied a very large area. Besides several large connected Livestock Enclosures, there was a broad yard in the middle. Uncle Lao Luo had turned part of it into a vegetable plot, while another part remained empty.
In the past, the yard had been used to